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Date:      Thu, 08 Jun 2000 11:57:58 -0600
From:      Steve Passe <smp@csn.net>
To:        Drew Eckhardt <drew@Poohsticks.ORG>
Cc:        chad@DCFinc.com, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Hardware and MS rant Was: Tyan Thunder 2400/i840 SMP no good 
Message-ID:  <200006081757.LAA32266@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 08 Jun 2000 00:19:13 MDT." <200006080619.e586JDR01400@chopper.Poohsticks.ORG> 

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Hi,
> In message <200006080553.WAA15952@freeway.dcfinc.com>, chad@DCFinc.com writes:
> >As I recall, Mike Smith wrote:
> >> Yes.  I've even see this with "high quality" SDRAM; the i840 board I'm 
> >> currently using has some cheap and nasty 64MB DIMMs which work fine, but 
> >> most of the "high quality" parts I've tried have failed miserably.
> >
> >Does this seem like a problem to anyone besides me?
> 
> Sure.
> ...

Intel has pretty much given up on supporting sdram in 820/MTH MBs.  They
have announced a replacement program why you supossedly will get a new
MB/RDRAM setup...  See tom's hardware page for MANY articles on this mess:

http://www5.tomshardware.com/mainboard/00q2/000512/index.html
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